The Great Alberta Curriculum Debate, Pt 21: Johnson denies Alberta moving towards a system where students are “self directed.” But deputy minister Bass has pronounced our schools will have a “vision of embracing student autonomy as sacrosanct.”
Just what is … Continue reading →

On Thursday afternoon, Hockey Canada tweeted out a link to the names of the first 20 players on the roster of this year’s World Championships team:
#BREAKING – 20 players named to #TeamCanada for the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World … Continue reading →

Take your cue from the Easter Bunny, a perpetual wanderer who never stays home. (Oh, hang on a sec, maybe he doesn’t have one. Santa’s from the North Pole; where’s the Easter Bunny from? Is he a Euro, but with … Continue reading →

About this time last year, I wrote a story about a dogged local entrepreneur who had put her everything into a new food business. Called Awake Cereals, the business produced two kinds of cereal that its Sherwood Park owner, … Continue reading →

Sandra Marocco calls them her TV shoes. They’re so dang uncomfortable they can only be worn while sitting in front of the TV.
Barb Wilkinson’s first love was footwear. Her newest faves are another pair of red boots.
“What is … Continue reading →

Oilers scoring chances differential was much worse against Western conference teams this year
The good news is that the Edmonton Oilers had 14 wins in their last 30 games. If you extrapolate that over a full season, you have a … Continue reading →

More than two decades after he founded Liquor Depot Corp., a predecessor of Edmonton-based Liquor Stores N.A., Canada’s largest independent liquor store operator, former company CEO Irving Kipnes is retiring from the board.
Fellow company director John Butler has also … Continue reading →

If Oilers general manager Craig MacTavish wants to upgrade his defence corps in a meaningful way, he’s likely going to have to find a way to pull the trigger on a deal something like last year’s swap with St. Louis … Continue reading →